coil vs snake

coil

verb
  • To wind or reel e.g. a wire or rope into regular rings, often around a centerpiece. 

  • To build a pot (etc) with clay coils. 

  • To wind cylindrically or spirally. 

  • To wind into loops (roughly) around a common center. 

noun
  • Any intrauterine device (Abbreviation: IUD)—the first IUDs were coil-shaped. 

  • A coil of electrically conductive wire through which electricity can flow. 

  • Entanglement; perplexity. 

  • A noise, tumult, bustle, or turmoil. 

  • Something wound in the form of a helix or spiral. 

  • A cylinder of clay. 

snake

verb
  • To wind round spirally, as a large rope with a smaller, or with cord, the small rope lying in the spaces between the strands of the large one; to worm. 

  • To inform; to rat. 

  • To clean using a plumbing snake. 

  • To follow or move in a winding route. 

  • To steal slyly. 

  • To drag or draw, as a snake from a hole; often with out. 

noun
  • A series of Bézier curves. 

  • The seventh Lenormand card. 

  • A flavoured jube (confectionary) in the shape of a snake. 

  • A tool to aid cable pulling. 

  • A legless reptile of the suborder Serpentes with a long, thin body and a fork-shaped tongue. 

  • A treacherous person; a rat. 

  • Somebody who acts deceitfully for social gain. 

  • Trouser snake; the penis. 

  • An informer; a rat. 

  • A tool for unclogging plumbing. 

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